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Plurality Winners in
General Elections for Governors, 1948-2003
Sorted by Winning Percentage
35.0-39.9%
| State |
Year |
Winner |
Winning
% |
| Maine |
1994 |
Angus King |
35.0% |
| Connecticut |
1994 |
John Rowland |
36.0% |
| Hawaii |
1994 |
Benjamin Cayetano |
37.0% |
| Minnesota |
1998 |
Jesse Ventura |
37.0% |
| Utah |
1956 |
George D. Clyde |
38.2% |
| Alaska |
1990 |
Walter J. Hickel |
39.0% |
| Alaska |
1978 |
Jay S. Hammond |
39.1% |
| Maine |
1974 |
James B. Longley |
39.1% |
| Arizona |
1986 |
Evan Mecham |
39.7% |
| Maine |
1986 |
John R. McKernan Jr. |
39.9% |
40.0-44.9%
| State |
Year |
Winner |
Winning
% |
| Connecticut |
1990 |
Lowell P.
Weicker, Jr. |
40.0% |
| Utah |
1988 |
Norman H. Bangerter |
40.1% |
| Alaska |
1994 |
Tony Knowles |
41.1% |
| Idaho |
1966 |
Don Samuelson |
41.4% |
| New
Hampshire |
1972 |
Meldrim Thomson |
41.4% |
| Utah |
1992 |
Michael Leavitt |
42.0% |
| Oklahoma |
2002 |
Brad Henry |
43.0% |
| Oregon |
1990 |
Barbara Roberts |
43.0% |
| Minnesota |
2002 |
Tim Pawlenty |
44.0% |
| New York |
1966 |
Nelson A. Rockefeller |
44.6% |
45.0-49.9%
| State |
Year |
Winner |
Winning
% |
| Pennsylvania |
1994 |
Tom Ridge |
45.0% |
| Vermont |
2002 |
Jim Douglas |
45.0% |
| Wisconsin |
2002 |
James Doyle |
45.0% |
| Hawaii |
1982 |
George R. Ariyoshi |
45.2% |
| Arizona |
2002 |
Janet Napolitano |
46.0% |
| New
Hampshire |
1970 |
Walter R. Peterson |
46.0% |
| Alaska |
1982 |
Bill Sheffield |
46.1% |
| California |
2002 |
Gray Davis |
47.0% |
| Maine |
1990 |
John R. Mckernan Jr. |
47.0% |
| Maine |
2002 |
John Baldacci |
47.0% |
| New
Jersey |
1997 |
Christine Todd Whitman |
47.0% |
| Oklahoma |
1994 |
Frank Keating |
47.0% |
| Rhode
Island |
1994 |
Lincoln Almond |
47.0% |
| Vermont |
1986 |
Madeleine M. Kunin |
47.0% |
| Alaska |
1986 |
Steve Cowper |
47.3% |
| Oklahoma |
1986 |
Henry Bellmon |
47.5% |
| Maine |
1978 |
Joseph E. Brennan |
47.7% |
| Texas |
1972 |
Dolph Briscoe |
47.9% |
| Virginia |
1965 |
Mills E. Godwin |
47.9% |
| Nevada |
1970 |
Mike O'Callaghan |
48.1% |
| Oklahoma |
1970 |
David Hall |
48.4% |
| California |
2003 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger |
48.6% |
| Ohio |
1974 |
James A. Rhodes |
48.6% |
| Wyoming |
1958 |
J. J. Hickey |
48.9% |
| Alabama |
2002 |
Bob Riley |
49.0% |
| California |
1990 |
Pete Wilson |
49.0% |
| Colorado |
1998 |
Bill Owens |
49.0% |
| Kansas |
1990 |
Joan Finney |
49.0% |
| Missouri |
2000 |
Bob Holden |
49.0% |
| New Hampshire |
2000 |
Jean Shaheen |
49.0% |
| New Jersey |
1993 |
Christine Todd Whitman |
49.0% |
| New York |
1994 |
George Pataki |
49.0% |
| New York |
2002 |
George Pataki |
49.0% |
| Oregon |
2002 |
Ted Kulongoski |
49.0% |
| Texas |
1990 |
Ann W. Richards |
49.0% |
| California |
1982 |
George Deukmeiian |
49.3% |
| Connecticut |
1948 |
Chester Bowles |
49.3% |
| Ohio |
1978 |
James A. Rhodes |
49.3% |
| Illinois |
1982 |
James R. Thompson |
49.4% |
| Kansas |
1978 |
John Carlin |
49.4% |
| New Hampshire |
1978 |
Hugh J. Gallen |
49.4% |
| North Dakota |
1960 |
William L. Guy |
49.4% |
| Connecticut |
1954 |
Abraham A. Ribicoff |
49.5% |
| Kansas |
1974 |
Robert F. Bennett |
49.5% |
| New Jersey |
1981 |
Thomas H. Kean |
49.5% |
| Minnesota |
1990 |
Arne Carlson |
49.6% |
| Mississippi |
1999 |
Ronnie Musgrove |
49.6% |
| New York |
1954 |
Averell Harriman |
49.6% |
| Connecticut |
1950 |
John D. Lodge |
49.7% |
| Minnesota |
1962 |
Karl F. Rolvaag |
49.7% |
| Massachusetts |
2002 |
Mitt Romney |
49.8% |
| Michigan |
1950 |
G. Mennen Williams |
49.8% |
| Michigan |
1990 |
John Engler |
49.8% |
| Idaho |
1986 |
Cecil D. Adrus |
49.9% |
| Massachusetts |
1952 |
Paul A. Dever |
49.9% |
| Massachusetts |
1962 |
Endicott Peabody |
49.9% |
| Nebraska |
1990 |
Ben Nelson |
49.9% |
| New Mexico |
1974 |
Jerry Apodaca |
49.9% |
| New Mexico |
1994 |
Gary Johnson |
49.9% |
| Wyoming |
2002 |
Dave Freudenthal |
49.9% |
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